Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is a technology company that develops the open-source Llama series of large language models, alongside AI research at Meta AI (formerly FAIR).
Enterprise AI workflows often create hidden manual labor as employees copy-paste AI outputs into downstream systems, undermining ROI. A July 2026 study found AI-assisted output increased developer thr…
Meta is implementing new spending controls and a real-time usage dashboard called AI Gateway to rein in AI costs after an internal memo warned roughly 6,000 employees about an 'exponential increase' i…
CuspAI, a Cambridge startup founded in 2024 by Dr. Chad Edwards and Professor Max Welling, closed a $450 million Series B on July 21, 2026, valuing it at $2.6 billion, up from $520 million nine months…
Executives from OpenAI and Meta mocked Google after the release of Gemini Flash 3.6, which scored 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, unchanged from Gemini Flash 3.5, placing Google behi…
Meta launched Content Seal on July 7, an invisible watermarking system for images and videos created by its Muse AI models, but independent testing by Reuters on July 10 found it failed to identify ov…
Meta launched Content Seal, an invisible watermarking system for AI-generated images, in July 2024, but the technology is less robust than existing solutions like Google's C2PA Content Credentials, ac…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit on July 14 in US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the company's internal AI systems disproport…
BlackRock is raising at least $12 billion through a bond sale to build a Meta data centre in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock owning 80% of the project and Meta owning 20%, allowing Meta to keep the cos…
Nearly 200 utility companies and data center developers, including NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, Equinix, and Digital Realty, have signed President Donald Trump's 'rate payer protection pledge' to shie…
A new report from Lanai finds that 78% of enterprise leaders view AI as both software and a labor force, yet 87% admit AI output is sometimes or always credited entirely to the human employee, creatin…
Tesla is set to report second-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, with investors eyeing updates on AI initiatives and a possible SpaceX merger. Shares are down 16% year to date after r…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' accurately diagnoses present-day AI risks like power consolidation and automation blindness but wrongly dismisses catastrophic A…
Meta is piloting a new AI app called StoryKit that lets parents generate personalized children's bedtime stories by photographing a toy or person to create a character, describing a story world, and c…
British publisher Bloomsbury Publishing will receive compensation from a $1.5 billion settlement with AI startup Anthropic, resolving claims that Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its Claude l…
Meta's automated moderation systems are disabling thousands of innocent Facebook and Instagram accounts under accusations of child sexual exploitation, with users reporting vague notices, instant appe…
The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on AI infrastructure this year, with combined capital spending set to overtake the cash their core businesses generate, …
The PHLX Semiconductor Index (SOX) has pulled back roughly 20% from its mid-June peak, erasing more than a third of its 2026 gains in about three weeks, according to market analysis. The selloff was t…
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are on course to spend about $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, up from roughly $410 billion in 2025, while their combined free cash flow is projected t…
Big Tech companies including Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft are using off-balance sheet financing vehicles similar to those that enabled Enron's collapse, masking billions in debt tied to AI infrastruc…
The U.S. Army is burning through its AI tokens faster than expected, forcing a re-imposition of usage limits just weeks after the Department of Defense (DOD) touted widespread AI adoption. An internal…